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Dean R Koontz

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Dean R Koontz

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From the back of Odd is on Our Side:

Dean Kootz is the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers.  He lives with his wife, Gerda, in Southern California.
79
09-Jul-1945
Unknown or still living
Dean Koontz
Dean Ray Koontz

Quotes

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern.  The man who stands before a crowd and proclaims his intention to save the seas is convinced that he is superior to a man who merely picks up his own and other people's litter on the beach, when in fact the latter is in some small way sure to make the world a better place, while the former is likely to be a monster of vanity whose crusade will lead to unintended destruction.
A lot of people these days are the opposite of what they say they are, and a lot of them probably don't even realize it.  They're opposed to racism even as they act like racists.  They're opposed to fascism, even as they act like fascists.  The world's gone weird.

Quicksilver
Dean R Koontz
Bridget Rainking
First, it is a mistake to presume to know anyone's internal emotional landscape based on what external emotional signals they seem to be sending.  Second, you can apologize for something you have done, but only a fool apologizes for things that other people have done, for he has no authority to do that.

Quicksilver
Dean R Koontz
Quinn Quicksilver
Unfortunately, my mind was also in part formed by the apocalyptic, death-obsessed culture of the past several decades. Tens of millions were supposed to have died in an ice age back in the 1980s, just as predicted in 1969, and still more were said to be doomed by a bath of acid rain shortly thereafter, as well as in radiation that would fry the world when the ozone layer disappeared. Hadn’t hundreds of millions more perished at the turn of the millennium - Y2K - when every damn computer went haywire and all the nuclear missiles in the world were launched, to say nothing of the lethal effects of canola oil in theater popcorn? Living in the End Times was exhausting. When you were assured that billions of people were on the brink of imminent death at every minute of the day, it was hard to get the necessary eight hours of sleep, even harder to limit yourself to only one or two alcoholic drinks each day, when your stress level said, I gotta get smashed.

Quicksilver
Dean R Koontz
Quinn Quicksilver
I despaired that so many people, born with the knowledge of intuition and with the ability to reason, shaped their lives instead by sheer emotion.  So many were swept away by boldfaced lies and swayed into currents of vicious fantasies, until they were so far from the shore of truth that they couldn’t even see it.

Quicksilver
Dean R Koontz
Quinn Quicksilver
Why?  Why do the authorities allow the criminal gangs that terrorize neighborhoods and entire cities to thrive as they do?  Politicians, attorneys general, district attorneys, and the FBI have the power to destroy the gangs and prevent most of the crimes they commit, the murdering and raping and human trafficking and the endless flood of drugs across the border, the hateful murdering murdering murdering of faithful husbands and little girls in their Sunday dresses.  Yet the people with the power to stop men like Hamal and Lupo and Parker often facilitate their activities.  Maybe the majority of politicians and their appointees are corrupt, but not all.  Are those uncorrupted individuals so often ineffective because they are cowards or lazy or stupid?  Does loyalty to party, class, club, or ideology matter to them more than doing what is right?  Why?  Why can't such people see that the crime and anarchy they permit to flourish in poor and middle-class neighborhoods will eventually metastasize into the enclaves of the elite where they live their privileged lives?  Why do they have contempt for those not in their circle?  Why can't they see that being of the people rather than ruling over them is the only way that they themselves will survive?
Even though comfort based on an illusion is itself illusory, it is for a while a deliverance from the anxiety and existential dread that the world today can generate in abundance.
When a majority of people in any society share the same array of illusions and cling passionately to them, they will encourage one another until illusion becomes delusion, until delusion becomes mass insanity.  Whole societies do go mad.  History is filled with chilling examples.
There's nothing quite so invigorating, so freeing, as piloting a gasoline-powered vehicle along an open road.  Years from now, when all the vehicles are electric, when tens of millions of acres of Earth’s surface have been destroyed by open-pit mining for the enormous quantities of lithium and cobalt and nickel and copper required for EVs, when thousands of new landfills have been crammed full of batteries that can't be recycled and are leaking horrifying toxins into the water table, when thousands of square miles of windmills have made extinct hundreds of species of birds with disastrous environmental effects, I will still - always, always - remember this special and exhilarating night...
Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries...

Books

# Year Title Role Series
1 1968 Star Quest Writer 
2 1969 The Dark Symphony Writer 
3 1969 The Fall of the Dream Machine Writer 
4 1969 Fear That Man Writer 
5 1970 Beastchild Writer 
6 1970 Dark of the Woods Writer 
7 1970 Hell's Gate Writer 
8 1970 Soft Come the Dragons Writer 
9 1971 Anti-Man Writer 
10 1971 The Crimson Witch Writer 
11 1971 Demon Child Writer 
12 1971 Legacy of Terror Writer 
13 1972 Chase Writer 
14 1972 Children of the Storm Writer 
15 1972 Dance with the Devil Writer 
16 1972 The Dark of Summer Writer 
17 1972 A Darkness in My Soul Writer 
18 1972 The Flesh in the Furnace Writer 
19 1972 Starblood Writer 
20 1972 Time Thieves Writer 
21 1972 Warlock Writer 
22 1973 Blood Risk Writer 
23 1973 Hanging On Writer 
24 1973 The Haunted Earth Writer 
25 1973 Shattered Writer 
26 1973 A Werewolf Among Us Writer 
27 1974 After the Last Race Writer 
28 1975 Dragonfly Writer 
29 1975 Invasion Writer 
30 1975 The Long Sleep Writer 
31 1975 Nightmare Journey Writer 
32 1975 The Wall of Masks Writer 
33 1976 Night Chills Writer 
34 1976 Prison of Ice Writer 
35 1977 Face of Fear Writer 
36 1977 The Vision Writer 
37 1979 The Key to Midnight Writer 
38 1980 The Funhouse Writer 
39 1980 The Voice of the Night Writer 
40 1980 Whispers Writer 
41 1981 The Mask Writer 
42 1982 The House of Thunder Writer 
43 1983 Phantoms Writer 
44 1984 Darkfall Writer 
45 1984 Twilight Writer 
46 1985 The Door to December Writer 
47 1985 Twilight Eyes Writer 
48 1986 Strangers Writer 
49 1987 Twilight Eyes Writer 
50 1988 Lightning Writer 
51 1989 Midnight Writer 
52 1990 The Bad Place Writer 
53 1990 The Servants of Twilight Writer 
54 1990 Shadowfires Writer 
55 1991 Cold Fire Writer 
56 1992 Hideaway Writer 
57 1993 Dragon Tears Writer 
58 1993 Mr. Murder Writer 
59 1994 Dark Rivers of the Heart Writer 
60 1994 Winter Moon Writer 
61 1995 Chase (Revised) Writer 
62 1995 Icebound Writer 
63 1995 Intensity Writer 
64 1995 Strange Highways Writer 
65 1996 Tick Tock Writer 
66 1996 The Eyes of Darkness Writer 
67 1996 Santa's Twin Writer 
68 1997 Demon Seed Writer 
69 1997 Sole Survivor Writer 
70 1998 Fear Nothing Writer 
71 1999 False Memory Writer 
72 1999 Seize the Night Writer 
73 2000 From the Corner of His Eye Writer 
74 2001 One Door Away From Heaven Writer 
75 2001 The Paper Doorway Writer 
76 2002 By the Light of the Moon Writer 
77 2003 Odd Thomas Writer Odd Thomas (1)
78 2003 Watchers Writer 
79 2003 Every Day's a Holiday Writer 
80 2003 The Face Writer 
81 2004 Life Expectancy Writer 
82 2004 Life is Good Writer 
83 2004 Robot Santa Writer 
84 2005 Forever Odd Writer Odd Thomas (2)
85 2005 Christmas is Good Writer 
86 2005 Prodigal Son Writer Dean Koontz's Frankenstein (1)
87 2005 Ciry of Night Writer Dean Koontz's Frankenstein (2)
88 2005 Velocity Writer 
89 2006 Brother Odd Writer Odd Thomas (3)
90 2006 The Husband Writer 
91 2007 The Good Guy Writer 
92 2007 The Darkest Evening of the Year Writer 
93 2008 Odd Hours Writer Odd Thomas (4)
94 2008 In Odd We Trust Writer Odd Thomas (4.1)
95 2008 Bliss to You Writer 
96 2008 Your Heart Belongs to Me Writer 
97 2009 A Big Little Life Writer 
98 2009 Breathless Writer 
99 2009 Dead and Alive Writer Dean Koontz's Frankenstein (3)
100 2009 I Trixie, Who is Dog Writer 
101 2009 Relentless Writer 
102 2010 Odd is on Our Side Writer Odd Thomas (4.2)
103 2010 Darkess Under the Sun Writer 
104 2010 Lost Souls Writer Dean Koontz's Frankenstein (4)
105 2010 Trixie & Jinx Writer 
106 2010 What the Night Knows Writer 
107 2011 77 Shadow Street Writer 
108 2011 The Dead Town Writer Dean Koontz's Frankenstein (5)
109 2011 The Moonlit Mind Writer 
110 2011 Nevermore Writer 
111 2012 Odd Apocalypse Writer Odd Thomas (5)
112 2012 House of Odd Writer Odd Thomas (4.3)
113 2012 Oddkins Writer 
114 2013 Deeply Odd Writer Odd Thomas (6)
115 2013 Odd Interlude Writer Odd Thomas (4.4)
116 2013 Innocence Writer 
117 2013 Wilderness Writer 
118 2014 Ask Anna: Advice from the Furry and Forlorn Writer 
119 2014 The City Writer The City (1)
120 2014 The Neighbor Writer The City (0.5)
121 2014 You Are Destined to Be Together Forever Writer 
122 2015 Saint Odd Writer Odd Thomas (7)
123 2015 Ashley Bell Writer Ashley Bell (1)
124 2015 Final Hour Writer Ashley Bell (0.5)
125 2015 Last Light Writer Ashley Bell (0.2)
126 2017 The Silent Corner Writer Jane Hawk (1)
127 2017 The Whispering Room Writer Jane Hawk (2)
128 2017 Ricochet Joe Writer 
129 2018 The Crooked Staircase Writer Jane Hawk (3)
130 2018 The Forbidden Door Writer Jane Hawk (4)
131 2018 The Bone Farm Writer Jane Hawk (0.5)
132 2019 The Night Window Writer Jane Hawk (5)
133 2019 In the Heart of the Fire Writer Nameless: Season 1 (1)
134 2019 Memories of Tomorrow Writer Nameless: Season 1 (6)
135 2019 The Mercy of Snakes Writer Nameless: Season 1 (5)
136 2019 Photographing the Dead Writer Nameless: Season 1 (2)
137 2019 The Praying Mantis Bride Writer Nameless: Season 1 (3)
138 2019 Red Rain Writer Nameless: Season 1 (4)
139 2020 Devoted Writer 
140 2020 Elsewhere Writer 
141 2021 The Other Emily Writer 
142 2021 Corkscrew Writer Nameless: Season 2 (5)
143 2021 Gentle is the Angel of Death Writer Nameless: Season 2 (2)
144 2021 Kaleidoscope Writer Nameless: Season 2 (3)
145 2021 Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not Writer Nameless: Season 2 (4)
146 2021 The Lost Soul of the City Writer Nameless: Season 2 (1)
147 2021 Zero In Writer Nameless: Season 2 (6)
148 2022 Quicksilver Writer 
149 2022 The Big Dark Sky Writer 
150 2023 The House at the End of the World Writer 
151 2023 After Death Writer 
152 2024 The Bad Weather Friend Writer 

Movies and Shows

# Release Date Title Role
1 1 Dec 1988 Watchers Writer
2 16 Aug 1990 Watchers II Writer
3 23 Jan 1998 Phantoms Writer







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